- Sven Anders reported that we introduced a cert verfication flaw for OpenSSL-

  powered libcurl in 7.19.6. If there was a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name
  field in the certficate it had to match and so even if non-DNS and non-IP
  entry was present it caused the verification to fail.

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 816505f..c9a3489 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (16 Sep 2009)
+- Sven Anders reported that we introduced a cert verfication flaw for OpenSSL-
+  powered libcurl in 7.19.6. If there was a X509v3 Subject Alternative Name
+  field in the certficate it had to match and so even if non-DNS and non-IP
+  entry was present it caused the verification to fail.
+
 Daniel Fandrich (15 Sep 2009)
 - Moved the libssh2 checks after the SSL library checks. This helps when
   statically linking since libssh2 needs the SSL library link flags to be

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 7136fd5..6077ef2 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o configure uses pkg-config for cross-compiles as well
  o improved NSS detection in configure
  o cookie expiry date at 1970-jan-1 00:00:00
+ o libcurl-OpenSSL failed to verify some certs with Subject Alternative Name
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -38,6 +39,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Karl Moerder, Kamil Dudka, Krister Johansen, Andre Guibert de Bruet,
  Michal Marek, Eric Wong, Guenter Knauf, Peter Sylvester, Daniel Johnson,
- Claes Jakobsson
+ Claes Jakobsson, Sven Anders
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

diff --git a/lib/ssluse.c b/lib/ssluse.c
index aaf5df0..c0c1ee6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/ssluse.c
+++ b/lib/ssluse.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,8 @@ cert_hostcheck(const char *match_pattern, const char *hostname)
 static CURLcode verifyhost(struct connectdata *conn,
                            X509 *server_cert)
 {
-  bool matched = FALSE; /* no alternative match yet */
+  int matched = -1; /* -1 is no alternative match yet, 1 means match and 0
+                       means mismatch */
   int target = GEN_DNS; /* target type, GEN_DNS or GEN_IPADD */
   size_t addrlen = 0;
   struct SessionHandle *data = conn->data;
@@ -1093,7 +1094,7 @@ static CURLcode verifyhost(struct connectdata *conn,
     numalts = sk_GENERAL_NAME_num(altnames);
 
     /* loop through all alternatives while none has matched */
-    for (i=0; (i<numalts) && !matched; i++) {
+    for (i=0; (i<numalts) && (matched != 1); i++) {
       /* get a handle to alternative name number i */
       const GENERAL_NAME *check = sk_GENERAL_NAME_value(altnames, i);
 
@@ -1119,14 +1120,18 @@ static CURLcode verifyhost(struct connectdata *conn,
              /* if this isn't true, there was an embedded zero in the name
                 string and we cannot match it. */
              cert_hostcheck(altptr, conn->host.name))
-            matched = TRUE;
+            matched = 1;
+          else
+            matched = 0;
           break;
 
         case GEN_IPADD: /* IP address comparison */
           /* compare alternative IP address if the data chunk is the same size
              our server IP address is */
           if((altlen == addrlen) && !memcmp(altptr, &addr, altlen))
-            matched = TRUE;
+            matched = 1;
+          else
+            matched = 0;
           break;
         }
       }
@@ -1134,10 +1139,10 @@ static CURLcode verifyhost(struct connectdata *conn,
     GENERAL_NAMES_free(altnames);
   }
 
-  if(matched)
+  if(matched == 1)
     /* an alternative name matched the server hostname */
     infof(data, "\t subjectAltName: %s matched\n", conn->host.dispname);
-  else if(altnames) {
+  else if(matched == 0) {
     /* an alternative name field existed, but didn't match and then
        we MUST fail */
     infof(data, "\t subjectAltName does not match %s\n", conn->host.dispname);